Bangla Bhai

Siddique ul-Islam (1970-30 March 2007), also known as Bangla Bhai, was a leader of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh and an affiliate of al-Qaeda; he was the second-in-command of Shaykh Abdur Rahman. In 2005 he was responsible for 500 bombings in 300 locations in 63 out of 64 Bangladeshi districts, killing 2 and wounding 50, and he was executed by hanging in 2007.

Biography
Siddique ul-Islam was born in 1970 in East Pakistan to a Muslim Bangladeshi family, a year before Bangladesh gained its independence from Pakistan. He taught Bengali language as a teacher for some time, and became a leader of the Rajshahi-based Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization led by Shaykh Abdur Rahman. He gained a nationwide notoriety for his organization of terrorist attacks, and he was made the leader of the Majlis e-Shura, the decision-making committee of the JMJB. ul-Islam became known a "Bangla Bhai", meaning "Bengali Brother", and on 17 August 2005 he masterminded a nefarious plan to rock the nation. 500 makeshift bombs exploded in 300 locations across 63/64 of Bangladesh's districts.

Due to his role in this attack that could have possibly killed many more people, Bhai gained a warrant for arrest from the Bangladeshi police. Bhai was captured on 6 March 2006 with a wound to his left arm, and he was sentenced to death with 5 other militants, including Shaykh Abdur Rahman. Bhai and Rahman were executed on the same day on 30 March 2007.